Job Opportunity Trade Mark East Africa, Gender Manager

Working closely with the Director, Sustainable and Inclusive Trade, the Gender Manager will be responsible for the development and implementation of the TMEA gender strategy in line with TMEA’s corporate strategy and results framework. S/he will provide strategic leadership, technical and methodological support to TMEA’s country and regional programmes in relation to gender work and implementation of gender plans to ensure TMEA’s strategy II gender commitments are well articulated, incorporated into all programming (as relevant), measurable and delivered.

S/he shall provide leadership in cross-learning and knowledge generation for thematic alignment in relation to TMEA’s gender strategic priorities across the organisation and ensure that TMEA staff and partners are capacitated to understand and support the implementation of the gender strategy. S/he will play a key role in supporting effectively integrated of gender aspects in TMEA corporate policies, systems and operations.

This role requires close collaboration with other units within the SIT department and TMEA such as results, regional and country programme teams, TMEA implementing partners and TMEA’s Human Resource department as the front line implementors of the gender work within the organisation.